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Bill Gates' last day
At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches. Many of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs..

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Last week I got a chance to go to the VS 2008 Launch event in Abu Dhabi, It’s a nice time to be there. the event starts with all the basic formulates and the launch is for VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 , Server 2008 , there were 2 sessions one is for developer and another is for Professional , so I went for developer session . first they start with the features in framework and then they explained about the other features in asp.net and they are more concentrated on team server , that’s the very important feature, there is lot new in SQL server 2008 also with more features for reporting and charting . they had included chat and reports in SQL 2008 , I remember in my previous company we bought that , and its very powerful with gadgets with dashboard and they also launched a new product called expression suit , it has expression blend, expression media, expression web media and another one I forget it ..

We had a good breakfast in the morning and very good lunch … at last they gave a trial pack for VS 2008, SQL Server 2008, Server 2008 and expression suit , in the next once I will write deeply about the technologies

Error Message

The Current time on this computer adn the current time on the network are different for moreinformation about Date/Time Propertoes, see Help and Support . To log on , Contact your system administrator

Cause : This error will occuer when you convert you client PC to the Domain sever . There is the date / time difference between the server and the client .

Solution : ASk your administrator to check the correct time in the server and the client or if your are the administrator log in to the client and set the time as if in the server

It’s a Great News from Microsoft that they had given provision to see the source code of the .Net Framework libraries. It had been announced on October and now it has been released , and its only for VS2008 . for detailed view you can see that in Scott’s Blog

What are the stages in Software release, what does it actually mean?

Alpha: Alpha refers to the very early release, which is typically very buggy and only released to few people internal to the organization. It is helpful, in development,

Beta: Its is the first version released out side the Organization with bugs.

Gamma or Release Candidate:
At this phase the product is also most completed and up to release with very minimum bugs. When the product reached this stage it means that, there won’t be any further change or update in the code

Gold or Release: It’s the final finished product, with only few fixes. After this stage the product will be stable for release in the market

How do i learn from my Job ?

Many of well-wishers and friends had advised me to learn from the present job and try to go for a better job. At the beginning I am very confused about “Learning the Job “, because I thought learning the technology is enough to grow up in the carrier but that’s not a true apart from learning that, there are lot of other things are there to learned. When I grew up in my carrier I started understanding the real meaning for “Learning the Job”. So I thought of sharing my view with you all. Basically, learning means what we grasped from the work which we do or what we grasped from the environment which we are. Just a very small list that I used to follow

1. Learn professionalism both in the work the and culture
2. Learn the best use of Technologies
3. Learn to Update yourself with latest technology and news
4. Learn how to Speak
5. Learn how to write and maintain documents
6. Learn how to handle the situations
7. Learn the real Business
8. Learn how to present yourself
9. Learn how to motivate other and to get self-motivated
10. Learn how to deal with peoples
11. Learn the way to analyze the situations
12. Learn how to build a team
13. Learn your Duties
14. Learn to take responsibility
15. Learn to plan and Execute
16. Learn to Manage Time
17. Learn to make good relation with your co-workers
18. Learn how to earn
19. Learn how to set a target and focus on that
20. Learn all the bad things in your profession which will help you to do the good things
21. Learn to be loyal
22. and finally learn to LOVE your work


These are all a very small list which I had given. There are lot to learn .Learning the work and the work culture will vary from the company to company and the locality to locality and that to depend on the team which you work .don’t scold me if there is any grammatical mistake .sorry .hahaha

Protecting your SAM Database

How to I protect my system. How to make my PC more secure on windows environment there are few common way we can protect our PC

By setting the BIOS password.
By Setting Windows password
By using system Hardware key

By using SYSKEY Utility.

I know most of will know the first 3 way of protecting and the fourth is quite different. Even thought SYSKEY Utility. is part of our OS we are not used to it . Let me explain about it .first we will know where this SYSKEY Utility resides inside our OS it’s in C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder. This utility is used to protect the System Account Manager Database (SAM) to run this utility go to run and type syskey

Fig1
The SYSKEY Utility will open now

Fig 2

Ok what is SAM what it does, this is the place where the OS will maintain the system username and password in encrypted format, now what the SYSKEY utility will do . it will move the decryption key to the floppy disk so that if you put the Floppy disk, only the system will open . Lets explain what’s there in the fig 2 here we have the Encryption Disabled and Encryption Enabled.

When you select the Encryption Disabled it will not encrypt the syskey if you select Encryption Enabled it will encrypt. After that clink the update button

Fig 3
In this screen we have the two options first the password setup which the user can give for their own or else we can select the system generated password. Again here we have the two way of storing the password. When you select the store startup key on floppy disk. The encrypted key will be stored in the floppy or if you select the store startup key locally it will be stored in the local system itself. This one of the most secure way to protect your system the data.

Trciks to play Minesweeper Game.

Press X, Y, Z, Z, Y, Shift +Enter, Enter

Now open the Minesweeper and watch the Top Left Corner of the screen and move your mouse cursor over the mine in the game. If there is no boom the Top Left Corner pixel will be set to 1 or else it will be set to 0 so you can see the difference in the Top Left Corner pixel. Based on this you can easily finish the game

Enabling Arabic in SQL server /Arabic is not recognized in SQL server it displays as “???????”.i had seen may query like this in many discussion group and I had also faced the same problem .These are the few tips which I had followed to solve the problem

Solution 1:
Set the collation for the field to Arabic while creating the table

How do I change the collation for the existing table?

ALTER TABLE #studrelation ALTER COLUMN stu_rela_code
Nvarchar(100) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL


Here Arabic_CI_AS

Arabic – Language which you need
CI/CS - Case Insensitive / Case Sensitive
AS/KS/WS - Accent sensitivity/ Kana Sensitivity/ Width sensitivity

Solution 2:

Arabic will be recognized only with data type Nvarchar, text if you insert in varchar data type it won’t work.

CREATE TABLE #studrelation
( stud_id int,
stu_rela_code Nvarchar(100)
)
Insert into #studrelation(stud_id,stu_rela_code)values(1,'رسوم كتب')

select * from studrelation where stu_rela_code like N'%رسوم كتب%'

Weather Microsoft is watching your system. Don’t they have any other work than that. “wpa.dbl “.WPA stands for Windows Product Activation for Windows XP and above version of Microsoft OS is using the wpa.dbl file to activate the product. There are lot of rumours that, by using this file Microsoft is going to watch your activities. Ya its may be true but not all your personal activities ,it will check for the OS license only . Ok how MS is going to check the license, weather they are going to take my H/W info. Yes they are, there are few listed H/W which they are going to check they are

NIC & MAC address
HDD Serial Number
processor number
Display Adapter
SCSI Adapter
IDE Adapter (effectively the motherboard)
RAM Amount Range (i.e., 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc.)
Processor Type
CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM

The “wpa.dbl “ is going to have the info of the above said H/W. Then What its does? Every time you boot you system the OS will check the H/W serial number with the number in the “wpa.dbl “ file, if your version of OS pass 7 checks then only your OS will be considered as licensed one. If else you can all MS through phone and you can activate it

What happen when I change the H/W?
If you change 1 or 2 H/W there is no problem if the OS passes less then 7 checks then you want to reactivate your OS through phone call. So this what “wpa.dbl “file is going to do in your system

The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

1. Cobol
2. No relational DBMS
3. Non-IP networks
4. cc: Mail
5. Cold Fusion
6. C programming
7. PowerBuilder
8. Certified NetWare Engineers
9. PC network administrators
10. OS/2

Reference: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9020942

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Speak the Basics of Share

By Darren Chervitz, CBS Market Watch

In the sometimes mundane world of investing, initial public offerings are shrouded in mystique.
The world of newly public companies, after all, remains off limits for most individual investors, although that is slowly beginning to change.
Apart from the sex appeal and the potential for big returns, however, investing in IPO’s is risky business. One simple fact anybody interested in jumping in the new issue market should know: Year in and year out, IPO’s have historically underperformed the broader market.
Obviously, investors need to get beyond the allure and hype of IPO’s and become educated about the facts. Following are some definitions of terms commonly used in the IPO market.

American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) — These are offered by non-US companies wishing to list on a US exchange. They are called "receipts" because they represent a certain number of a company's regular shares.
Aftermarket performance — Used to describe how the stock of a newly public company has performed with the offering price as the typical benchmark.
All or none — An offering which can be canceled by the lead underwriter if it is not completely subscribed. Most best-effort deals are all or none.
Best effort — A deal in which underwriters only agree to do their best to sell shares to the public, as opposed to much more common bought, or firm commitment, deals.
Book — A list of all buys and sells orders put together by the lead underwriter.
Bought deal — An offering in which the lead underwriter buys all the shares from a company and becomes financially responsible for selling them. Also called firm commitment.
Break issue — Term used to describe a newly issued stock that falls below its offering price.
Completion — An IPO is not a done deal until it has been completed and all trades have been declared official. Usually happens about five days after a stock starts trading. Until completion, an IPO can be canceled with all money returned to investors.
Direct Public Offering (DPO) — An offering in which a company sells its shares directly to the public without the help of underwriters. Can be done over the Internet. Liquidity or the ability to sell shares, in a DPO is usually extremely limited.
Flipping — Buying an IPO at the offering price and then selling the stock soon after it starts trading on the open market. Greatly discouraged by underwriters, especially if done by individual investors.
Green shoe — Part of the underwriting agreement which allows the underwriters to buy more shares — typically 15% — of an IPO. Usually done if a deal is extremely popular or was overbooked by the underwriters. Also called the over allotment option.
Gross spread — The difference between an IPO's offering price and the price the members of the syndicate pay for the shares. Usually represents a discount of 7% to 8%, about half of which goes to the broker who sells the shares. Also called the underwriting discount.
Indications of interest — Gathered by a lead underwriter from its investor clients before an IPO is priced to gauge demand for the deal. Used to determine offering price.
Initial public offering (IPO) — The first time a company sells stock to the public. An IPO is a type of a primary offering, which occurs whenever a company sells new stock, and differs from a secondary offering, which is the public sale of previously issued securities, usually held by insiders. Some people say IPO stands for "Immediate Profit Opportunities." More cynicIt's Probably Overpriced."
Lead underwriter — The investment bank in charge of setting the offering price of an IPO and allocating shares to other members of the syndicate. Also called lead manager.
Lock-up period — The time period after an IPO when insiders at the newly public company are restricted by the lead underwriter from selling their shares. Usually lasts 180 days.
New issue — Same as an IPO.
Offering price — The price that investors must pay for allocated shares in an IPO. Not the same as the opening price, which is the first trade price of a new stock.
Opening price — The price at which a new stock starts trading. Also called the first trade price. Underwriters hope that the opening price is above the offering price, giving investors in the IPO a premium.
Oversubscribed — Defines a deal in which investors apply for more shares than are available. Usually a sign that an IPO is a hot deal and will open at a substantial premium.
Penalty bid — A fee charged to brokers by the lead underwriter for having to take back shares already sold. Meant to discourage flipping.
Pipeline — A term used to describe the stage in the IPO process at which companies have registered with the SEC and are waiting to go public.
Premium — The difference between the offering price and opening price. Also called an IPO's pop.
Prospectus — The document, included in a company's S-1 registration statement, which explains all aspects of a company's business, including financial results, growth strategy, and risk factors. The preliminary prospectus is also called a red herring because of the red ink used on the front page, which indicates that some information � such as the price and share amounts � is subject to change.
Proxy — An authorization, in writing, by a shareholder for another person to represent him/her at a shareholders' meeting and exercise voting rights.
Quiet period — The time period in which companies in registration are forbidden by the Securities and Exchange Commission to say anything not included in their prospectus, which could be interpreted as hyping an offering. Starts the day a company files an S-1 registration statement and lasts until 25 days after a stock starts trading. The intent and effect of a quiet period have been hotly debated.
Road show — A tour taken by a company preparing for an IPO in order to attract interest in the deal. Attended by institutional investors, analysts, and money managers by invitation only. Members of the media are forbidden.
Selling stockholders — Investors in a company who sell part or all of their stake as part of that company's IPO. Usually considered a bad sign if a large portion of shares offered in an IPO comes from selling stockholders.
S-1 — Document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing a company's intent to go public. Includes the prospectus; also called the registration statement.
Spinning — The practice by investment banks of distributing shares to certain clients, such as venture capitalists and executives, in hopes of getting their business in the future. Outlawed at many banks.
Syndicate — A group of investment banks that buy shares in an IPO to sell to the public. Headed by the lead manager and disbanded as soon as the IPO is completed.
Venture capital — Funding acquired during the pre-IPO process of raising money for companies. Done only by accredited investors.